News
Recent and upcoming presentations from the SPRINT team
Recruitment: Katherine Marcoux has now joined SPRINT as our new lab manager. Welcome Katherine!
SPRINT NEWS, October 2020: The SPRINT team is now based at Radboud University.
SPRINT NEWS, July 2020: SPRINT is in the process of moving to Radboud University where Amalia is now based.
SPRINT NEWS, June 2020: SPRINT now has its own OSF and RG pages. Check them out and follow us: OSF, RG.
Cong has won the Summer Vacation Research Prize 2020, a competition held by the University of Kent. She will receive funding for her project titled 'Where does the beat fall? Speech-beat alignment in singing'. Congratulations Cong!
On 27.02.2021, 13h00 (UTC), Amalia is giving a talk in the Abralin Ao Vivo series, titled "On The Phonetics and Phonology of H* and L+H* in English and Greek". https://aovivo.abralin.org/lives/amalia-arvaniti/
Katie presented a talk at the Institut für Linguistik, University of Cologne on 21/01/2020, based on findings from her PhD researcher. The talk is titled "Aspects of prosody in Djambarrpuyŋu" and focuses on Katie's analysis of Djambarrpuyŋu intonation.
Amalia gave a workshop on intonation, titled "Intonation Research and the Autosegmental-Metrical Model of intonational Phonology" for PPDK2020 (Phonetics and Phonology in Denmark), 1 December 2020 https://soundsoflanguageandspeech.wordpress.com/ppdk-2020/. You can find the slides here.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the events below have been postponed, cancelled or moved online. We are updating this page as new information emerges.
SPRINT members are presenting their work at BAAP 2020; Amalia's paper (with Mary Baltazani and Stella Gryllia) is titled "Tunes and meaning compositionality in intonation"; Katie's paper is titled "Intonational marking of focus and topic in Djambarrpuyŋu"
https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/baap2020york/home BAAP HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Amalia is giving a talk at the Cambridge University Linguistic Society on 23 April 2020, titled "Intonational Phonology in the light of cross-linguistic evidence".
https://camlingsoc.wordpress.com/talks/ HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR 8 MARCH 2021
Conference presentation at 24th ISTAL on "Meaning compositionality in intonation"; Amalia Arvaniti (with Stella Gryllia and Mary Baltazani)
http://www.new.enl.auth.gr/istal24/ ISTAL TOOK PLACE IN OCTOBER 2020
Invited talk at Speech Prosody 2020 Satellite Workshop on "Representations in Intonational Phonology: How different is Intonational Phonology, and from what?". Amalia's talk is titled "Intonational phonology in the light of cross-linguistic evidence" http://sites.bu.edu/ripworkshop2020/ WORKSHOP WILL BE RESCHEDULED AT SOME POINT
Conference presentation at Laboratory Phonology on "Decomposing intonational meaning: tonal and segmental contributions"; Amalia Arvaniti (with Stella Gryllia and Mary Baltazani) CANCELLED
Amalia is also a co-organizer of a LabPhon satellite event titled Forms and representations in phonology: in honour of Bob Ladd WORKSHOP WILL NOW TAKE PLACE AS A PaPE SATELLITE (JUNE 3, 2020, BARCELONA)
PREVIOUS TALKS
SPRINT members presented a poster at the special session "Remote Testing for Auditory and Speech Research" of the 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
Abstract title: Speech data collection at a distance: Comparing the reliability of acoustic cues across homemade recordings
Date & Session time: 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM EST, December 10, 2020
Session title: 4aPPc, Remote Testing for Auditory and Speech Research II (Poster Session)
Abstract code: 4aPPc8
Cong presented a pre-recorded video lecture at the 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (with undergraduate research intern Charlotte Slocombe).
Abstract title: Where does the beat fall? Speech-beat alignment in Mandarin and English singing
Date & Session time: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM, December 10, 2020
Session title: 4aMUa. General Topics in Musical Acoustics IV
Abstract code: 4aMUa2
Amalia gave an invited talk, titled "The phonetics and phonology of intonation in the light of cross-linguistic evidence" at the GLOW Workshop on "Prosody in Speech Signal, Perception, and Gestures" organized by Marzena Zygis and Stefanie Jannedy (ZAS Berlin)
https://glowlinguistics.org/43/ The invited talk is available at https://osf.io/meetings/glow43hu/
Conference presentation at Speech Prosody 2020 on "Linguistic experience and rhythm perception"; Amalia Arvaniti (with Sumio Kobayashi as first author) https://sp2020.jpn.org/ IS AVAILABLE IN THE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Conference presentation at Speech Prosody 2020 on "The contribution of pitch accents and boundary tones to intonation meaning"; Amalia Arvaniti (with Stella Gryllia and Mary Baltazani) https://sp2020.jpn.org/ IS AVAILABLE ONLINE
Conference presentation at Speech Prosody 2020 on "Segment duration and proportion in Mandarin singing"; Cong Zhang (with Xinrong Wang) https://sp2020.jpn.org/ IS AVAILABLE ONLINE
Amalia Arvaniti gave a talk at the General Linguistics Seminar, Oxford on 10th February 2020, titled "Intonational phonology in the light of crosslinguistic evidence of variability"
https://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/files/gls-ht2020-seminar-series-programme.pdf
Amalia in Oxford (photo credit Cong Zhang)